Psychosis of Power

My friend the Kenyan literary scholar Wandia Njoya calls it the “psychosis of power,” likening it to the novel The Beggars’ Strike by Senegalese writer Aminata Sow Fall. In the book, beggars are driven out of Dakar by the rich. But the rich eventually go looking for the beggars — just to have the dark pleasure of rejecting their desperate pleas.

So the Trump administration’s recent escalation of brutal immigration policies, for me, originates in the same logic as those awkward conversations I had in New England. Perhaps Trump and company secretly don’t have a problem with immigrants of color coming into the United States. Because what they love is chasing them away.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2018/08/03/foreigner-view-america-immigration-problem-you-like-kicking-out/dIQg7gw6EYwP8olo1ugISI/story.html